47%

[BonMallari]

I would not know...I have not seen his tax returns....he has just said charitable contribution....and I know from experience banking Mormon owned business...they don't share the wealth

the Mormon church is one of the most benevolent church out there...and I am not Mormon but if you spent time like I have in their communities they take care of those in their local areas regardless if yo are in their tabernacle or faith

[menmon]

But neither do you and that is my point

[menmon]

Yes they do and why might that be?

[ARay11]

The couple established the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Charitable Foundation in 1993. It lay mostly dormant until 1999, when the couple deposited more than $3.6 million worth of high-tech stocks in it and began to make significant contributions.
Now known as the Tyler Charitable Foundation, it is scheduled to release its 2010 financial reports later this month.
"Mitt and Ann Romney are very involved in the community," said campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. "Some of their activity is public through their foundation, but that is not the only vehicle for their philanthropy. Their charitable giving is not something they generally talk about, but I think it's fair to say they feel an obligation to give back."
The foundation has been the Romneys' main vehicle for giving, whether to keep the lights on with a $10,000 check to a homeless shelter for veterans that couldn't pay its electric bill or to send relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina ($10,000) and the South Asia earthquake and tsunami ($25,000).
The GOP presidential hopeful has donated $127,000 in proceeds from his 2010 campaign book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." Seven charities serving children, cancer and MS patients and severely wounded veterans got donations ranging from $10,000 to nearly $33,000.
The businessman-turned-politician has also foregone payment for work he did as governor and as head of the Olympics.
As head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney took no salary for three years while donating $1 million to the games. Later, while he was entitled to $135,000 annually as governor of Massachusetts, he drew a salary of $1 a year for serving as the state's chief executive. And while he hasn't explicitly said so this time around, Romney vowed during his last campaign for the White House that, if elected, he would donate his $400,000 salary as president to charity.
While her husband was forgoing a paycheck, Ann Romney donated her time to a variety of causes. She has worked as a board member of New England Chapter of the MS Society to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, the disease with which she was diagnosed in 1998, and has been a long-time supporter of the United Way of Massachusetts. She also has served as director of the Best Friends Foundation, a controversial program that promotes abstinence-only sex education for inner-city girls.
Excluding gifts to the Mormon Church and BYU, the Romney foundation typically donated a bit more than $200,000 annually to charities over the last decade. But some years the couple gave relatively little. In 2002 and 2003, they donated $75,500 and $81,200, respectively

[caryalsobrook]

The couple established the Ann D. and W. Mitt Romney Charitable Foundation in 1993. It lay mostly dormant until 1999, when the couple deposited more than $3.6 million worth of high-tech stocks in it and began to make significant contributions.
Now known as the Tyler Charitable Foundation, it is scheduled to release its 2010 financial reports later this month.
"Mitt and Ann Romney are very involved in the community," said campaign spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. "Some of their activity is public through their foundation, but that is not the only vehicle for their philanthropy. Their charitable giving is not something they generally talk about, but I think it's fair to say they feel an obligation to give back."
The foundation has been the Romneys' main vehicle for giving, whether to keep the lights on with a $10,000 check to a homeless shelter for veterans that couldn't pay its electric bill or to send relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina ($10,000) and the South Asia earthquake and tsunami ($25,000).
The GOP presidential hopeful has donated $127,000 in proceeds from his 2010 campaign book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." Seven charities serving children, cancer and MS patients and severely wounded veterans got donations ranging from $10,000 to nearly $33,000.
The businessman-turned-politician has also foregone payment for work he did as governor and as head of the Olympics.
As head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney took no salary for three years while donating $1 million to the games. Later, while he was entitled to $135,000 annually as governor of Massachusetts, he drew a salary of $1 a year for serving as the state's chief executive. And while he hasn't explicitly said so this time around, Romney vowed during his last campaign for the White House that, if elected, he would donate his $400,000 salary as president to charity.
While her husband was forgoing a paycheck, Ann Romney donated her time to a variety of causes. She has worked as a board member of New England Chapter of the MS Society to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, the disease with which she was diagnosed in 1998, and has been a long-time supporter of the United Way of Massachusetts. She also has served as director of the Best Friends Foundation, a controversial program that promotes abstinence-only sex education for inner-city girls.
Excluding gifts to the Mormon Church and BYU, the Romney foundation typically donated a bit more than $200,000 annually to charities over the last decade. But some years the couple gave relatively little. In 2002 and 2003, they donated $75,500 and $81,200, respectively

Thanks for the info. I'm sure this only is the tip of the iceberg. I only wish we had more such greedy, uncaring bastards such as this family. Just think, he won't show his tax returns because they might show that he paid his taxes just like most of us, BY THE RULES. What a bastard.

[roseberry]

i don't care about that 47% of americans either........maybe i should seek my party's nomination next time!

b.s. accounting and management information
former c.p.a.
former senior executive fortune 20 company(retired)
current small business owner-general contractor, homebuilder/developer, real property investor, trainer and marketer of started dogs
made and lost fortunes in both the tech/.com and real estate bubbles, current inventories of started dogs exceed prior years sales
annual income variable-anywhere from good to not enough

[BonMallari]

i don't care about that 47% of americans either........maybe i should seek my party's nomination next time!

b.s. accounting and management information
former c.p.a.
former senior executive fortune 20 company(retired)
current small business owner-general contractor, homebuilder/developer, real property investor, trainer and marketer of started dogs
made and lost fortunes in both the tech/.com and real estate bubbles, current inventories of started dogs exceed prior years sales
annual income variable-anywhere from good to not enough

I would vote for ya...even though you are from the SEC..at least I know you know how to make payroll and balance a P and L statement...don't know much about your dog training skills, but from what I have read, you know which end to feed and which end to kick,so you are ahead of most...as long as you don't make it a mandate that we have to pledge allegiance to some SEC univ on Saturdays in the fall, you got a shot...

[JDogger]

Just out of curiosity, am I one that displays a lack of education?

I pointed out years ago that Obama was a Marxist, not a socialist.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Also, calling folks secular progressives is not name calling, it is fact.
The "secular progressive party" (formerly the Democrats) BOO God!!!!!!

What would you call them?

Just sayin'..........

Although Marx is popularly thought of as the originator of the phrase, the slogan was common to the socialist movement and was first used by Louis Blanc in 1839, in "The organization of work". The origin of this phrasing has also been attributed to the French utopian Morelly, who proposed in his 1755 Code of Nature "Sacred and Fundamental Laws that would tear out the roots of vice and of all the evils of a society" including
I. Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.
II. Every citizen will be a public man, sustained by, supported by, and occupied at the public expense.
III. Every citizen will make his particular contribution to the activities of the community according to his capacity, his talent and his age; it is on this basis that his duties will be determined, in conformity with the distributive laws.

Some scholars trace the origin of the phrase to the New Testament. In the parable of the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus spoke of what we are given, according to our abilities; to test the commitment of the steward to his master. In Acts the Apostles' lifestyle is described as communal (without individual possession), and uses the phrase "distribution was made unto every man according as he had need":
Matthew 25:14-30: And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.Acts 4:32: All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.Others dispute that the Bible supports this idea.^{[citation needed]}
Got any citations? Eh? JD

These quotes came from the internet where can be found almost anything to substantiate, refute or ridicule anything one cares to post.

Ain't it great? JD

[Uncle Bill]

It's always based individually on whose ox is being gored. Romney's comments were ill advise, NOT because it had too much truth to it, but he should have realized it would be skewed to mean what the pathetic MSP wants to make of it. Only the braindamaged Democrats on the SS rolls are calling him an out of touch cretin. The sane people in the electorate understand completely what he's saying. But it's hard to reach the sycophants with their head stuck where the sun don't shine.

UB

Poll: 64% Agree With Romney On The 47%

Written By:
Rob Port
Sep 20, 2012



According to a new poll from Rasmussen, Americans strongly believe there is too much dependence on government:

Americans strongly believe that there is too much government dependency in the country today. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 64% of Adults think there are too many Americans dependent on the government for financial aid. Just 10% think not enough Americans are dependent on the government, while 16% say the level of dependency is about right.

The problem with polls like this, of course, is that people are only nominally against government dependence. Farmers who get huge amounts of government subsidies are against the expansion of welfare programs. People on welfare may be against farm subsidies. Giant “green energy” companies, whose very existence hinges on government subsidies and mandates for their products, may not like other sorts of government economic intervention.

Which is why strong majorities can be against government dependence even as there clear overlap between those who are dependent and those who oppose dependency. It is how the entitlement has divided and conquered us. All of us want to shrink government, just not our favorite slice of government.

[gmhr1]

If we try Obamas way , even if he was to tax millionaires at 100 % it will only run the Gov for 3 months. He doesn't know what he's doing